Hindus under the official Muslims of Pakistan on July 18, 2020We stand by our declarations that members of every community will be treated as citizens of Pakistan with equal rights and privileges and obligations and that the minorities will be safeguarded and protected. (M. A. Jinnah, March22, 1948). In August 1947, Pakistan started its journey with seventy million, Muslim as majority population; Hindus being 13% […]
India-Pakistan: the bashing communal-social orders on June 13, 2020In August 1947 India was partitioned with a huge blood-shed resulting in massive migration between India and Pakistan. Since then, this triggered aggression and hatred developed equally among both the nations. During Partition, around four million people were estimated missing and around two million as displaced. Only in Punjab 500,000 to 800,000 were killed during […]
Identity in a globalised world on February 19, 2020Book Review Book: Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment Writer: Francis Fukuyama Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York; 2018 Number of Pages: 218 Reviewer: Dr Busharat Elahi The fourteen-chapter commendable work of Francis Fukuyama elaborates his philosophical ideology regarding “identity.”He refers to the concept of Samuel Huntington, classifying the era […]
Gandhi’s version of ‘A Nation’ and the implications of Indian Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 on December 28, 2019“Thus, if I could not accept Christianity either as a perfect, or the greatest religion, neither was I then convinced of Hinduism being such. Hindu defects were pressingly visible to me. If untouchability could be a part of Hinduism, it could but be a rotten part or an excrescence. I could not understand the raison […]
The burden of black and white coats on December 18, 2019Work honestly and sincerely, and be faithful and loyal to the Pakistan government. I can assure you that there is nothing greater in this world than your own conscience and, when you appear before God, you can say that you performed your duty with the highest sense of integrity, honesty and loyalty — Mohammad Ali […]
Islam vs official Islam: myth in Pakistan on November 17, 2019“Muslim means a person who believes in the unity and oneness of Almighty Allah, in the absolute and unqualified finality of the Prophet of Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), the last of the prophets, and does not believe in, or recognize as a prophet or religious reformer, any person who claimed or claims to be […]
The bloodied role of RSS in the partition of Punjab 1947 on October 2, 2019C. R. Attlee, the British Prime Minister declared the Partition of India by June 1948. But the bloodied holocaust particularly in the Punjab pushed the British administration to implement the Partition in August1947, Lord Wavell replaced with Lord Mountbatten who resumed the office as Viceroy in March 1947 with the task to divide India into […]
The fate of Pakistani Ahmadis: Implications of Anti-Ahmadiyya Ordinance 1984 on August 8, 2019“We stand by our declarations that members of every community will be treated as citizens of Pakistan with equal rights and privileges and obligations…” (Mr Jinnah, March 1948). Religion, being one’s matter, leaves no room for the state to interfere. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, “Member states have pledged themselves to […]
Mullah-ism: a spring to upheaval on June 8, 2019— there remains the far greater task of constructing and building up Pakistan which will require every ounce of our energy, but by the Grace of God we shall build up this new greatest Muslim sovereign State in the world with complete unity, discipline and faith. (Mr. Jinnah, July 7, 1947) In modern-day world, Pakistan […]
India: the bloodied democracy on March 7, 2019India claims to be the world’s largest ‘democracy’. However, only having a big population and vast territory do not justify this title. Like Pakistan, India became independent in August 1947 after massive communal violence. At the time of partition, United India had around 400 million populations, out of which India and Pakistan received 330 and […]